New Year’s is a holiday I find particularly enjoyable since it marks the ending point to nothing in particular, cause honestly, the fact that my calendar will say ‘2009’ instead of ‘2008’ doesn’t do much for me. However, this change gives me an opportunity to reflect about the past year, a time frame that is [...]

I always find that after classes are over, and after a few days of resting, I need to get to work and do things while I have time and can actually do them. It is during breaks from the academic workload at MIT that I think the most about life and re-evaluate things.  This past [...]

I left Cambridge last Monday at ~8am, slept on both planes I took to Puerto Rico (I was sitting next to a man, and I don’t talk to men on airplanes, they’re boring), and then shopped all afternoon/night with my mom and my grandmother. I finally made it home by 2am after not having really [...]